Selfies are some of the most notorious, terrible photos you can ever take, but it's possible to use those powers for good and improve your picture-taking skills in the process. The key is to stop before you take that shot, examine where your eyes are going, and learn a little bit about perspective before you click the shutter. Best of all, you can train with a subject that's always nearby for a picture.

Simon Ellingworth, award winning photographer and author of the photography education blog Lightism (and who's helped us with other phototips in the past,) points out that people generally shoot from eye-level and put their camera where their eyes can go. By making yourself the subject of the shot and shooting at angles and through reflections, you have to take the camera away from your eye and start thinking about how the shot will turn out before you take it.